Filing divider



FILING DIVIDER Filed July 28, 1955 FIG.2

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m .m N m R E H 0 V C n W. R. 71 A m V. n a u u a B United States Patent FILING DIVIDER Coleman R. Chamberlin, Thompson Ridge, N. Y. Application July 28, 1953, Serial No. 370,683 1 Claim. (Cl. 129-26) My invention relates to a filing divider and its novelty consists in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

One of the latest forms of filing cabinets provides a drawer which tilts out and has a slot in the side of the back portion in which my filing divider is adpated to be mounted so as to slide therein. This tilting drawer makes the files easier of access and this back in the tilted out position becomes the bottom when closed so that the files and filing dividers as filed in the closed position in the cabinet are in the vertical position.

My filing dividers are thus used to divide or separate various groups of files in the filing devices and so maintain them and are adapted to slide into any desired part of the said drawer and take up very little room in the drawer.

When sliding by devices in the open tilted position of the drawer, the lightness and ease of same is a great advantage and does not add materially to the weight of the drawer.

Also the ease of construction and the small amount of material required make my device very inexpensive and as there is nothing to get out of order because of the simple strong construction there is no maintenance expense involved.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation in the horizontal position of my filing divider;

Fig. 2 is a top view of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a perspective of my device in an open tilted drawer of a filing cabinet;

Fig. 4 is a cross section of Fig. 3 on the line 4-4 looking in to the right;

Fig. 5 is the same as Fig. 4 but with an alternative form of cabinet slot.

In the drawings, 23 is a filing divider in which 6 are two outer vertical wire members which turn at right angles towards each other at their upper ends and said upper ends then turn downwardly at a 45 angle into 45 sloping portions 7 which merge in adjoining central members 8 thereby forming two substantially rectangular joined members which are rigidly secured together at 9 and 10 thereby forming 23. The members 6, 7 and 8 terminate at their lower ends in four straight wire ends 11 which are bent horizontally at right angles to vertical members 6 and ends 11 are then rigidly encased by a casting or secured rigidly in any other suitable manner within a substantially heavy metal slide element or base 12 which has upper edge grooves 13 adapted to engage a slot 14 being supported by plates 15 secured by screws 16 to a bottom 17 of a cabinet drawer 18 of cabinet 19.

Another form of slot 20 is shown in Fig. 5 in which plates 21 are rigidly secured to bottom 17 by screws 22.

In operating my device, a plurality of said filing dividers 23 can be mounted in the slot 14 of bottom 17 of cabinet drawer 18 by sliding bases 12 into slot 14 at open end (not shown) and files placed in between said filing dividers 23 so as to group said files as desired and in shifting said files in the drawer 18 said filing dividers 23 can be slid back and forth by sliding said bases 12 in slot 14.

When the cabinet drawer 18 is in the open lowered or tilted position the filing dividers 23 are in the horizontal position and can be pushed back and forth in slot 14 as may be desired so as to keep the files therebetween in the desired position. As the drawer 18 is swung back to the closed position the filing dividers 23 and the files supported between them are return to the normal vertical filed position.

In either the form shown in Fig. 4 or Fig. 5, the base 12 of the filing dividers 23 will be mounted in open ends (not shown) for that purpose.

Many variations may be made in the structure of my filing dividers without departing from the spirit and intent of the same which are covered by the specification, drawings and claim herein.

I claim:

In a filing divider, the combination of two wire members forming in the same plane two vertical elements running in opposite directions from the same starting point, then turning horizontally to form two horizontal parallel outside elements, then turning back vertically toward each other, then turning horizontally and joining to form two horizontal parallel inside elements back to the starting point, said wire elements terminating at said starting point in four straight ends which are bent at right angles to the plane of said wire members into a horizontal position and rigidly embedded in a solid metal base and said base having means adapted to engage and slide in an open end slot rigidly mounted in a filing cabinet drawer.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 386,674 Wells July 24, 1888 2,083,050 Chamberlin et al June 8, 1937 2,222,190 Wolf Nov. 19, 1940 

